How to Install and Uninstall stockfish Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: January 23,2025

1. Install "stockfish" package

This guide let you learn how to install stockfish on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                stockfish
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "stockfish" package

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall stockfish on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                stockfish
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the stockfish package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: stockfish
Architecture: amd64
Version: 12-2
Priority: optional
Section: universe/games
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Milan Zamazal
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 20853
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.29), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.4), libstdc++6 (>= 9)
Suggests: polyglot, xboard | scid
Filename: pool/universe/s/stockfish/stockfish_12-2_amd64.deb
Size: 9922508
MD5sum: a269a2c955671edf89c342ffc61cecea
SHA1: 4ae1d2af289a454a706710664ad13022435f10ce
SHA256: 09cbb3b9972b65a2d2dd7d971c687e8a1bdf189bf77fc4b8830253fe935ead53
SHA512: abfe0fc91cca95078d29b50d6e9517192abdad9986beff002b4cff87a46ae82066d167f6b534e20641bba4adedff527c40df15c7e3a4052ebe4dd16ef219a566
Homepage: https://stockfishchess.org
Description-en: strong chess engine, to play chess against
free chess engine derived from Glaurung 2.1. It is a chess engine, so it
requires an UCI (universal chess interface) compatible GUI like XBoard
(with PolyGlot), eboard, Jose, Arena or scid in order to be used comfortably.
It is the strongest open source chess engine by october 2009 in the
"computer chess rating list" CCRL. Written in C++ it uses multiple threads
and cores. It is capable of Chess960 and has experimental support for polyglot
opening books.
Description-md5: 1c88e787fea0cbec572e73232f9d09df